Joan Miró in his artist quotes on painting & life in Spain - free resource, Spanish art history

Joan Miró in quotes - the artist on his abstract painting + sculpture and his artistic life in Spain - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in Spanish art history

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Joan Miró’s quotes tell a lot about his development as a young Spanish artist, starting in the Dada art-movement of Barcelona. Some years later in Paris the French Surrealism was attracting him, and he decided to use the Surrealism techniques rather spontaneously in a vey individual way. Yet, Miro rejected membership to any specific artistic movement.

In his early Paris’ period Miró became close friends with the Surrealist painter / drawer André Masson. Later the American sculptor Calder (inventor of the mobiles) became a life-long close friend who visited him frequently in Spain. Miró had later a very strong impact on starting Abstract Expressionist artists in America; Miro’s imagination must have been attractive to the young artists there, in the 1940-50’s.
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Some artist-quotes of Spanish artist Joan Miró - as short introduction of his extended quotes in PDF:

• ’Let’s transplant the primitive soul to the ultramodern New York, inject his soul with the noise of the subway, of the ‘el’, and may his brain become a long street of buildings 224 stories high’ - Dada-quote of Miro, 1917, from a letter to Enric C. Ricart, Spain, October 1917

• ’Childhood and magic are married in this poem inscribed in infinity, like traces on walls or cracks in venerable walls, superimposed posters lacerated by wind, rain and poetry; calligraphy and ideograph intermerge in this equation… …in this sign.’ - Miro’s quote, from his letter to art-dealer Pierre Matisse, Febr. 1936

• ’The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. I’m overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun. There, in my pictures, tiny forms in huge empty spaces. Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains - everything which is bare has always greatly impressed me.’ - Miro’s quote, 1958; as cited in ‘Twentieth-Century Artists on Art’, ed. Dore Ashton
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  selection of free art-resources on famous Spanish artist, Joan Miró:

  • biographical notes of Joan Miró, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Miró
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Miró, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joan_Miró
  • images of the painting art of Joan Miró, on Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/Search/Miro
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek (= FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[see: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]